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.IX Title "App::Pinto::Command::delete 3pm"
.TH App::Pinto::Command::delete 3pm "2022-10-16" "perl v5.34.0" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH "NAME"
App::Pinto::Command::delete \- permanently remove an archive
.SH "VERSION"
.IX Header "VERSION"
version 0.14
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
.Vb 1
\&  pinto \-\-root=REPOSITORY_ROOT delete [OPTIONS] TARGET ...
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.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
!! \s-1THIS COMMAND IS EXPERIMENTAL\s0 !!
.PP
\&\fB\s-1IMPORTANT:\s0\fR  This command is dangerous.  If you just want to remove
packages or distributions from a stack, then you should probably be looking 
at the unregister command instead.
.PP
This command permanently removes an archive from the repository, thereby 
unregistering it from all stacks and wiping it from all history (as if 
it had never been put in the repository).  Beware that once an archive 
is deleted it cannot be recovered.  There will be no record that the
archive was ever added or deleted, and this change cannot be undone.
.PP
To merely remove packages from a stack (while preserving the archive),
use the unregister command.
.SH "COMMAND ARGUMENTS"
.IX Header "COMMAND ARGUMENTS"
Arguments are the targets that you want to delete.  Targets are
specified as \f(CW\*(C`AUTHOR/FILENAME\*(C'\fR.  For example:
.PP
.Vb 1
\&  SHAKESPEARE/King\-Lear\-1.2.tar.gz
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.PP
You can also pipe arguments to this command over \s-1STDIN.\s0  In that case,
blank lines and lines that look like comments (i.e. starting with \*(L"#\*(R"
or ';') will be ignored.
.SH "COMMAND OPTIONS"
.IX Header "COMMAND OPTIONS"
.IP "\-\-force" 4
.IX Item "--force"
Deletes the archive even if its packages are pinned to a stack.  Take
care when deleting pinned packages, as it usually means that
particular package is important to someone.
.SH "AUTHOR"
.IX Header "AUTHOR"
Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer <jeff@stratopan.com>
.SH "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE"
.IX Header "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE"
This software is copyright (c) 2015 by Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer.
.PP
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.